Gordon Murray poses with the Global Vehicle Trust OX, one of his more recent creations. Photos courtesy Gordon Murray Design, unless otherwise noted. Over the course of his five-decade career, Gordon...
Roy Lunn, at a December 2015 Sarasota Cafe Racers lunch. Photo by Gary Jean. Roy Lunn, the “Godfather of the Ford GT40,” passed away on August 5th, 2017 after suffering a catastrophic stroke at the a...
Stevens-modified Continental. Photo courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum. Typically, it’s a fool’s errand to compare two or more designers, if not due to the subjectivity of aesthetics, then certainly due t...
Hans im Glück Und dann zieht Hans Herrmann eine Liste mit den Namen seiner toten Kollegen aus seinem privaten Fotoalbum. «Freunde!», sagt er, sichtlich bewegt, «das waren alles gute Freunde. Das war ...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make s...
Photos by Teddy Pieper, courtesy Auctions America. What started out as a way to save lives by studying highway crashes led to a cascade of events that culminated in perhaps AMC’s biggest marketing op...
Photo courtesy Ford Media. For the first few years, Ford manufactured average-priced cars and a few expensive cars: Models A, B, C, F, K, N, R, and S. In addition, there were experimental models that...
Photo by DoctorIndy. While plenty of drivers have won the Indianapolis 500 multiple times over the century-plus history of the great American race, only five have managed to do so in consecutive year...
Images courtesy Geoff Hacker. Famed auto design instructor Strother MacMinn might not have directly built any of the Le Mans coupes he intended to compete at the race of the same name, but he left be...
Kuhni’s artwork for the original Hot Wheels line. Photo from author’s collection. You may not know Otto Kuhni’s name … but if you were a kid in the late ’60s, you knew his work. He started working fo...
Photos courtesy Bonhams. While Jack Sears won two separate British Saloon Car Championships, including the very first one in 1958, it was his latter championship which would prove the most notorious....
Hugus checking newly arrived and unfinished Cobras in storage in the basement of Continental Cars. The white Cobra in front of Hugus has one of the hand-written cardboard delivery signs with chassis ...
The Dadamore might never have progressed beyond the drawings of an eight-year-old boy, but it still caught the attention of AMC Canada President Bill Pickett. Old Cars Canada has the full story on ho...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. The original taillamps? Too Seventies. The original marble interior pieces? Didn’t fit with the new paint scheme. But the original Reno Bell rotary dial in-car telepho...
AACA Museum Night at the Museum. Photo by Mark Usciak. Each year, the AACA Museum’s Night at the Museum gives supporters a chance to enjoy the facility after hours, while dining on gourmet food and b...
Photo by Ben Bertucci. Most of us don’t get to drive our bosses’ fast cars. Valentino Balboni, however, is not most of us. As Lamborghini’s long-time test driver, he got some time behind the wheel of...
Bernie Ecclestone (L) with Sir Stirling Moss at Silverstone in 2010. Photo courtesy Silverstone Circuit. Since 1999, the sculptures of British artist Gerry Judah have welcomed visitors to the Goodwoo...
Arlen Vanke. Photo by Thomas A. DeMauro. For all his drag racing victories, most behind the wheel of a Pontiac or a Plymouth in the Stock, Super Stock and later, Pro Stock classes, “Akron” Arlen Vank...
Vic Edelbrock Jr. in 2013. Photo by Kurt Ernst. Vic Edelbrock Jr., for more than 50 years the head of the company that bears his name, died last week after complications from a cold. He was 80. The s...
It’s a sunny weekend in June, whattaya gonna do – sit inside and read? Okay, if you’ve got nothing going on in the garage, check out the roadside finds Feral Cars came across in the Highland Park are...
Vintage racing at Lime Rock. Images courtesy Lime Rock Park. Lime Rock has been marking its 60th birthday throughout 2017, going so far as to offer free tickets to select events for fans born in 1957...
John Cooper Fitch racing a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR at Dundrod in Northern Ireland, 1955; teamed with Stirling Moss, the pair would deliver a win for Mercedes. Photos courtesy Daimler Media Archives, un...
Tom Tjaarda with the Fiat 124 Spider. Image from the Hemmings archives. Over a career that spanned seven decades, Tom Tjaarda designed, or at least influenced the design of, over 84 vehicles. Trained...
Tom White collects motorcycles. But his reasons for doing so go beyond mere appreciation, as this Los Angeles Times profile of the man and the collection shows. * Ever since Tokyo Drift, we’ve seen p...
Peter Fontana’s Deuce coupe at The Race of Gentlemen. Images by the author. There probably has not been a time, at least in living memory, when the 1932 Ford was anything less than an icon of motorin...